Spirit of the North
Skip · Narrative · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.1h
- Value
- $3.92/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Spirit of the North is a single-player 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. Play as an ordinary red fox whose story becomes entwined with the guardian of the Northern Lights, a female spirit fox.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
October 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 63 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Spirit of the North 2 ($29.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Nephise Begins ($0.99, scores 11).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 862 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Players
17 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 19:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Spirit of the North scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1213700/spirit-of-the-northReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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